Din’s Curse v1.021 Beta Patch Released

There doesn’t appear to be an “official” patch coming for Din’s Curse anytime soon, as Soldak Entertainment has cranked out another beta patch that brings the action RPG and its Demon War expansion pack to version 1.021. The latest round of fixes:

‘¢ aligned the scrollbar better in load character screen
‘¢ changed hunter attack icon to a dagger (Crisses)
‘¢ no longer say right click to loot on other players equipment (Crisses)
‘¢ fixed a bug that let you give armor to monsters (DemonWar) (Ghost Matter)
‘¢ changed town attack gated out message to mention it’s temporary (SimonDark)
‘¢ changed find items for a personal project to be optional (Caal)
‘¢ no longer get reputation penalty for failing an optional quest
‘¢ now donating to an npc has a chance to make them not start a fight for 10 minutes (might also get them out of a current fight) (DemonWar)
‘¢ fixed not being able to solve debt and starving quests at the same time (DemonWar) (Steve)
‘¢ removed left click doesn’t attack text and fixed cursor while in stealth (Crisses)
‘¢ fixed using objects not stopping correctly if object destroyed
‘¢ can now convert a healthstone/manastone into a health/mana potion with an empty vial, destroys the stone though (DemonWar) (Tori)
‘¢ fixed another issue with displaying potential traps (Alstein)
‘¢ added a check just to make sure Din can’t starve to death (DemonWar) (Bak)
‘¢ improved text in Windows patch installer
‘¢ windows patch installer now verifies that destination is where game is actually installed
‘¢ fixed a geometry problem with one of the towns
‘¢ now fun stats are guaranteed across network to prevent losing stats if lose the wrong packet while playing multiplayer (Pyro/icecube/Tar Palantir)
‘¢ decreased traitor posionsed supply, curse, plague chances from money problems (DemonWar)
‘¢ fixed poisoned supply not starting with price increase (Bak)
‘¢ now on weapon/armor rewards from quests specify name of the item you received
‘¢ changed quest giver mini-map blips from a purple circle to ? or ! icons (Bak)
‘¢ cold mastery now effects ice prison time correctly (abomination5)
‘¢ added kill message for bosses (Manumitted)
‘¢ made sure when a quest is given by a monster it’s not a unique monster (Manumitted)
‘¢ npcs now give you a fair time period to solve a quest (DemonWar)
‘¢ flaming arrow, poison arrow, and shock bolt are now physical attacks instead of magic (Nobear)
‘¢ zoom keys can now repeat (Bluddy)
‘¢ npcs should no longer talk about themselves in the 3rd person with dynamic chat
‘¢ dark ritual no longer works on self
‘¢ spirit now increases resistances by 0.25 per level instead of 0.2 (Bak)
‘¢ changed all decent distractions to minor distractions since nothing actually requires a decent distraction (Deltahawk)
‘¢ can now cap number of sounds started at about the same time
‘¢ fixed lightning sounds not playing sometimes (Bluddy)
‘¢ changed a bunch of things over to new max sound stuff
‘¢ added a thank you activity (DemonWar)
‘¢ changed protocol version to 17
‘¢ changed min version for expansion to 1.021 (DemonWar)
‘¢ increased average length of starving quest some (DemonWar) (Bluddy)
‘¢ fixed another proc issue (finally), not getting initialized correctly in some cases (L337GTIMKV/Kruztee)
‘¢ fixed a typo in a renegade attack quest
‘¢ added a bags help topic
‘¢ fixed empty item slot highlight text
‘¢ now get a random quick tip on loading screen
‘¢ get now hit H to see the next quick tip
‘¢ added a bunch of quick tips
‘¢ decreased monster max damage per level from 1.2 to 1.1a